German embassy in Paris bombing

The German embassy in Paris bombing occurred in the autumn of 1940 during World War II. The French Resistance-linked priest Father Denis, who had previously had Sean Devlin assassinate a traitor to the Resistance during confession, decided to assassinate the traitor's Gestapo handler, Siegfried Albrecht. Devlin drove Father Denis to the German embassy building in Paris, where the Gestapo agent was based. Father Denis told the guards that he was going to deliver the list of the names of several French Resistance agents to the Gestapo officer, and he was not checked for weapons, as he was a priest. Denis planted the bomb before rushing to Devlin's car, and Devlin drove away as the embassy exploded. The bombing destroyed the embassy, but Albrecht survived, and he would later be assassinated in the Buttes Chaumont wedding ambush.